AUSTRALIAN batsman Chloe Piparo has joined Old Elizabethans as the overseas player for this summer’s Worcestershire League campaign.

Piparo - a right handed bat – has arrived in the UK as the overseas player for Worcestershire Women Rapids.

The 21-year-old has now linked up with OEs and is poised to make her competitive debut for the Perdiswell club’s third team in Saturday’s derby at Division Five leaders Hallow.

Table-topping Hallow are unbeaten so far this term, winning three and drawing two of their six league fixtures and head the table by just one point from second-placed West Malvern.

OEs are lying in fourth spot, 28 points behind Hallow.

“We’ve registered Chloe as our Worcestershire League overseas player, so she’ll be making her debut for our third team on Saturday,” said OEs’ cricket committee chairman Steve Walsh.

Piparo will link up with the Rapids until at least August.

She will be available to play in the NatWest T20 and Royal London 50 over competitions for the Rapids and will also play a prominent role in the Worcestershire Cricket Board's community projects aimed at inspiring girls to take up cricket.

Most recently Piparo was a member of the Perth Scorchers side which reached the semi-finals of the Women's Big Bash.

She also plays for Western Fury - the representative women's cricket team of Western Australia based in Perth whose home ground is the WACA.